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I really enjoy watching Debray and Mayet fly. They have a very interesting flying "postures" that looks as good as the kite itself.

I saw the performance by Debray. Its pretty good but I was hoping he would come up with a new routine. I"ve seen this routine for probably a few times already. The Mayet one from 2009 looks more interesting. He through in cyniques in a new routine I"ve not seen. If you do a search under the same festival name the kitehouse flyer in 4th place Johanssen (sp?) actually managed to squeeze in yo-fade in his routine. A first I've seen.

While these two are no question THE BEST given their years at the top, they got their clocks cleaned at the Stella Plage TP this year. The Kitehouse guys were simply a couple levels above them. Synchronous cometes were something these two didn't even attempt, much less nail. And this was in rather harsh wind conditions. I have seen these two nail everything in that routine, including the taz, and a comete>cascade>comete which they didn't not attempt this time. Watch the current masters:

I have always been a particular fan of Mayet, maybe because I get the feeling he's really a beach bum like I'd like to be. In the individual comps at Stella, he took 2nd to Chris Stahl (Kitehouse) only because he had a less readable ballet on the 2nd day. He clearly pulled off a list of tricks that was superior to Chris, but they were so originally combined and done so fast that the judges never stood a chance of seeing or scoring all them correctly. (For those who've done a TP, Mayet was through his list in 1:40 . The rest was insane.) Chris did each trick well, and put some lines in between, which in TP is quite important. Richard took 3rd, which I am sure was a new feeling for him.

While there are scores given for the artistic aspects, Tricks Party is about the tricks first, the ballet second.

I think that's the idea. Anyway, I have yet to see more than a handful of STACK ballets (of course, Debray's are one such exception) that manage to get 9 solid tricks worked into three minutes. And in a STACK ballet, you don't gain a great deal from adding high difficulty tricks if they don't fall into the music, and TP tries to rectify this by not forcing or emphasizing this.

Personally, I prefer this format, as it still rewards artistic flying while focusing on trick skills.

I think Mayet's ballet is actually pretty well done, give that his music is far from orthodox for a kite ballet. That's part of what made it so cool for me.

obi

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While there are scores given for the artistic aspects, Tricks Party is about the tricks first, the ballet second.

I think that's the idea. Anyway, I have yet to see more than a handful of STACK ballets (of course, Debray's are one such exception) that manage to get 9 solid tricks worked into three minutes. And in a STACK ballet, you don't gain a great deal from adding high difficulty tricks if they don't fall into the music, and TP tries to rectify this by not forcing or emphasizing this.

Personally, I prefer this format, as it still rewards artistic flying while focusing on trick skills.

I think Mayet's ballet is actually pretty well done, give that his music is far from orthodox for a kite ballet. That's part of what made it so cool for me.

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